48.6% ▲ +5.2%
Higher than 87% of region (sa4) areas.
- 2011: 46.2%
- 2016: 48.5%
- 2021: 48.6%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Perth - Inner · Region (SA4)
Migration & Movement in Perth - Inner
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Nearly half of the people in Perth - Inner moved house in the last five years, making it a highly mobile area. This trend is well above both the state and national figures, reflecting a fast-changing local population.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
Around 48.6% of residents have changed homes since 2016, a figure that is much higher than most areas. This movement has risen by 2.4 percentage points since 2011.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Overseas arrivals make up 20.8% of the population, which is far above the Western Australian figure of 10.6%. While this remains well above the national average, the proportion of recent arrivals has fallen by 11 percentage points since 2011.
20.8% ▼ -33.9%
Higher than 80% of region (sa4) areas.
- 2011: 31.5%
- 2016: 28.1%
- 2021: 20.8%
Share of overseas-born residents who arrived in Australia in the five years before the census.
Sources
- Census of Population and Housing — Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2021 (CC BY 4.0).
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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Migration & Movement in Perth - Inner [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sa4/503/perth-inner/topic/mobility-location